Search box in ads

Posted at October 1, 2007, in Japanese SEM, Japanese SEO

Using the search box in advertising has become very popular in Japan. You see the search box in TV commercials, magazine ads, online ads, etc. etc. It’s every where, but do they really rank for the search term?

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Submitting the site info to Japanese search engines

Posted at September 24, 2007, in Japanese Search Engines

Where and how to submit the site information to Japanese search engines including Google Japan and Yahoo Japan.

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What do Japanese do when they can’t remember “Kanji”?

Posted at September 17, 2007, in This and that

Writing in Japanese using PC is changing the way Japanese use Kanji characters, which should have some level of impact to the search keywords.

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goo’s “5W1H” search

Posted at September 13, 2007, in Japanese Search Engines

Japan’s search engine “goo” creating variety of unique search engines such as blog search, map search, train schedule search, and Wikipedia article search, announced the test version of “5W1H Search”.

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